Property category: 600 books
by Barry Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Literary property theft happens every day.
Written by a writer, for writers, Don't Let Anyone Steal Your Story will help you protect yourself against plagiarists and anyone else who might infringe your right of sole ownership.
What if you wrote a script and later saw an eerily similar...
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change
Interpreting the TRIPS Agreement for Environmentally Sound Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
As the world confronts global warming, there is a growing consensus that the TRIPS Agreement could be a more effective instrument for mitigating climate change. In this innovative work, Wei Zhuang systematically examines the contextual elements that can be used in the interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement...
Pills for the Poorest
An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between intellectual property and access to medication. Using...
by Matthew Cole
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of people apply for patents, copyrights, and trademarks in the United States every year. For example, the United States Patent and Trademark office recently reported that 452,633 patent applications were filed in one year. You can easily become one of these people if you have...
Intellectual Property and the New International Economic Order
Oligopoly, Regulation, and Wealth Redistribution in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In economic sectors crucial to human welfare—agriculture, education, and medicine—a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward: such rights include patents on seeds and medicines,...
by Janice Denoncourt
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
IP law has evolved from being a little pool to a big ocean. Corporate governance needs to respond to society’s rising expectations of directors and boards as the impact of the global intellectual property ecosystem is felt. How can a responsible corporate culture of IP transparency be stimulated...
Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
A Twentieth Century History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century. The development of patent law is inextricably linked to expanding capacities to elucidate, manipulate and commercially exploit the molecular...
by Sarah Blandy, Susan Bright
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
For those embarking on or engaged in property law research, this is a unique resource which includes contributions from twelve international scholars who each analyse a different research approach, addressing its value, associated methodology and the challenges involved in pursuing it.
Intellectual Property and Innovation Protection
New Practices and New Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book analyses the various ways in which intellectual property (IP) operates in relation to innovation activity. It reflects on the “classical” issues of the IP system related to the necessity of protecting risky and often costly investments undertaken by firms and others players involved...
The Exchange Order
Property and Liability as an Economic System
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
There are three basic institutional systems for governing the exchange of property. One is consensual: the exchange of property rights in ordinary markets. The other two, however, are nonconsensual: the involuntary exchange of entitlements in either civil or criminal liability cases. In The Exchange...
Spin-Outs
Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Universities increasingly encourage spin-out companies from their own departments, and interest from entrepreneurs and the commercial sphere is only set to develop further in coming years. With this in mind, Professor Graham Richards - an academic and businessman who has had many years of involvement...
Strata Title Property Rights
Private governance of multi-owned properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world. This book critically analyses the legal, social and economic complexities of strata or community title schemes. At a time when countries...
Community Resources
Intellectual Property, International Trade and Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Protection of traditional knowledge and resources is of critical concern not only to the groups involved but also to the international trading community for which these resources are of increasing economic importance. This work examines the concept of 'community', intellectual property models and...
The Pocket Legal Companion to Copyright
A User-Friendly Handbook for Protecting and Profiting from Copyrights
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In our age of unlimited, around-the-clock communication, copyright literacy has become a must for almost all of us, and everyone—informed or not—seems to have strong opinions about the rights of copyright owners and the rights of copyright users. This clearly written and objective book will reward...